The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
There are geologists who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
“I’m a rather useless insomniac viscount, but”—he gestured at Minerva—“my companion here is a brilliant geologist. There’s a symposium, you see. We… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Essentially every scientist, when posed with the question, "If you want to get science knowledge from Mars, do you want to send… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time.… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section,… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
For example, because I'm a lapsed geologist, I followed the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 in great detail, amassing a… — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are… — Granville Penn Copy Share Image
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
“We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a… — Sten Nadolny Copy Share Image
It is amazing to me, as a professional geologist, how many otherwise intelligent people have, as some may say, 'drunk the Al… — Earl F Titcomb Jr Copy Share Image
The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I… — Eike Batista Copy Share Image
Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
According to geologists, about 100 million years from now, Asia and the Americas will smash together to form one giant supercontinent. The… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
“If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“The geologist, six years ago now, hadn't defied anything to climb the hill. He'd had his own powerful magic--the ordinary magic that… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so… — Robert Knepper Copy Share Image
[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are headed to a radically new Earth, at least from our perspective. But from the planet's perspective, this is nothing new.… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be:… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Look, I don't know what you are, but you're more than a geologist, if you are one at all. I've met lots… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
![“[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section, but also upon the brain behind the eye of the observer. Each of us looks at a section with the accumulated experience of his past study. Hence the…” quote by Thomas George Bonney](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f35/thomas-george-bonney-58324_ads_microscopic-evidence-cannot-be-presented_1648037.png)
![“[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art, the other regarding geology as an exact science.” quote by Reinout Willem van Bemmelen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f59/reinout-willem-van-bemmelen-44_accounts_the-subjective-historical-element-in-geo_534299.jpg)
![“The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.” quote by William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/251/william-buckland-38336_decipher_the-field-of-the-geologist-s-inquiry-is_1121927.png)
![“[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school" to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of his investigations. Hans Cloos called this way of interrogation "the dialogue with the earth,"…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8a7/anonymous-1_communication_in-geology-as-in-history-the-material-in_22470.jpg)
